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A review by george_salis
Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
5.0
Made my dream come true and met one of my favorite writers of all time, the legendary Joseph McElroy!
He showed me around his place, took me to lunch, then we went for a walk by the Hudson River. It was a significant meeting for many reasons which I’ll be writing about in an epic essay. Memories I’ll cherish for a lifetime. Simply put, Joe is as wise as he is kind.
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I interviewed Joseph McElroy here: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/04/04/a-chaotic-science-an-interview-with-joseph-mcelroy/
"We read—the plural for the few as well as for the potential, the connected for the ostensibly disconnected—we read Women and Men, by we we mean you, by you we mean I, us, read it…. The we is not lost on us though perhaps it is lost on literature, for how many novels make use of this inclusive if not presumptive multitude? We, The Drowned is but one in which we the readers drown in a sea of stories with Danish sailors and their families, but Women and Men, this “loose-strung grand opus,” is not as clear-cut as that. “‘We’? we ask.” Oui oui."
You can read in full what is my longest review to date here (it was also the most difficult to write): https://thecollidescope.com/2021/06/01/women-and-men-by-joseph-mcelroy/
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He showed me around his place, took me to lunch, then we went for a walk by the Hudson River. It was a significant meeting for many reasons which I’ll be writing about in an epic essay. Memories I’ll cherish for a lifetime. Simply put, Joe is as wise as he is kind.
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I interviewed Joseph McElroy here: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/04/04/a-chaotic-science-an-interview-with-joseph-mcelroy/
"We read—the plural for the few as well as for the potential, the connected for the ostensibly disconnected—we read Women and Men, by we we mean you, by you we mean I, us, read it…. The we is not lost on us though perhaps it is lost on literature, for how many novels make use of this inclusive if not presumptive multitude? We, The Drowned is but one in which we the readers drown in a sea of stories with Danish sailors and their families, but Women and Men, this “loose-strung grand opus,” is not as clear-cut as that. “‘We’? we ask.” Oui oui."
You can read in full what is my longest review to date here (it was also the most difficult to write): https://thecollidescope.com/2021/06/01/women-and-men-by-joseph-mcelroy/
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